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		Xorlev on Sept 27, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Hackerface: Rapportive for HN Fancy, but as you may have discovered, blind link traversal is likely to come up with tons of really bad data. If you follow a Google Plus link, you'll inevitably get your own Google Plus information. The company I work for does this as an API and I know the challenges behind it, so for a JS project, nice work!

nicolethenerd on Sept 28, 2012 [–]

Aha! That explains why for some users, I'm seeing them listed as having my own e-mail address.

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